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THOS, ESSEX, Land Commissioner, 

LITTLE BOCK, J\.KK. 



X TOU have your choice of 2,000,000 Acres, 

\ comprising every variety of soil and location, 
-^ suitable for Agriculture, Stock- Raising, Fruit- 
Growing, or Manufacturing. You can choose a home 
among the hills, where apples, pears, peaches, and grapes 
will thrive, and make the luxuries as common as the nec- 
essaries of life. You can cover the uplands with fields 
of Wheat, Oats, Rye, or Barley, and get crops that you 
will not be ashamed to show in any market; or you can 
make the rich bottoms beautiful with fleecy cotton and 
tall corn that will bring ready money in convenient 
markets. In the crowded city you are compelled to 
struggle on, from year to year, to keep your family fed 
and clothed, and at the end find yourself just where you 
were in the beginning, while the rent you have to pay 
for your house, would buy a good farm in the Southwest, 
where there are no long winters to eat up the savings of 
the summer; where the same exertions you are making 
now will not only give you an abundant living, but will 
enable you to leave a comfortable home for your children 
after you. 

COME AMD LOOK AT THE LANDS. 

ROUND TRIP TICKETS, with privilege of 
stopping off at any Station, both ways, will be sold at re- 
duced rates. Apply to 

R. COUCH, E. A. FORD, 

Pana, 111. St. Louis. 

OR TO D. AXTELL, Cairo, 111. 

Ass't Land Commissioner, 
N. W. Cor. Tourth and Market Sts., St. Louis, Mo. ^ 



^E.icj^nsrs^s. 



THE ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN and 
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY has a 
grant of lands from the United States of nearly 
two million acres, embracing all varieties of soil and 
timber, and adapted to farming, fruit-growing, and 
grazing purposes. The grant was made more than 
twenty years ago, and the lands have been withheld 
from market since then. In the meantime, the adjoining 
alternate sections have been taken up and the country 
settled. Peace, good order and good feeling pre- 
vail throughout the State. 

Its Constitution is liberal in all its provisions. It 
guarantees equal rights and privileges to all per- 
sons. Taxation for State purposes cannot be made to 
exceed one per centum of the assessed value of the 
property. The support and maintenance of free 
schools is made obligatory. 

The State has a climate not surpassed by any in the 
Union. Its soil is fertile and of varied productions. 
Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fruits of all kinds, can 
be grown with certainty. 

The State has never been afflicted with " grasshoppers," 
" cotton- worms," or other destructive insects. 

I'eople from all sections of the country who desire to 
better their condition, are cordially invited to come to 
Arkansas and secure cheap homes. 

Personal property of each head of a family, to the 
extent of five hundred dollars in value, and not 
including wearing apparel, is also exempt. 

Thus it will be seen that by the liberal provisions of 
the laws of the United States, and of the State, a home- 
stead is guaranteed to each citizen. 

Railroads Lands are offered at low prices and on 
easy terms of payment, from $2.50 upward, with a 
general average of from $3 to $5 per acre for good 
farming land. 

Address THOIMI/LS ESSEX, 

Land Commissioner St. L., I. M. & S. R'y- 
\ LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



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